Yearly Archives: 2016

Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

Have you tried Gigantic yet? It shouldn't be too hard to get into the closed beta, particularly as we have been giving out keys...

Technically, one could argue that you don't need lore to make an MMORPG work; it just helps players have an idea of who they're...

Watch out: Path of Exile has split in twain! What has happened is that with this week's 2.4.2 patch, the MMOARPG has rolled out...

You'd better not honk, you'd better not drive, you'd better not rage-quit, I'm telling you why: Santa Truck is coming to town. Well, to...

Going to Seoul for G-Star next week? Probably not, but if so, I'm jealous. If you were going, you'd be able to check out...

Elite Lord of Alliance might have been down, but it's not out -- not yet, at least. Following the decision by Webzen to close down...

Shroud of the Avatar's Release 36 lands today, a little bit early because of next week's major holiday, Black Friday, which is preceded by...

The season to end all seasons has come and gone. The Secret World's Samhain has faded back into the fog, and it will be another...

If there's one thing I've learned from Pokemon Go, it's that staying home and playing MMORPGs from the comfort of my pajama pants is...

While those playing Star Trek Online on consoles are a bit behind the game's PC client, that also means that they get updates a...

Remember back at the turn of October, when Amazon Game Studios and Twitch announced the Twitch Prime mélange and promised everyone tons of free...

When we engage in the collective fantasy of playing MMORPGs, we accept certain structures and tropes that have been in place since the early...

Anyone who has played the game that inspired City of Titans knows that they will play with a very straightforward objective: Go. Hunt. Kill......

As Revelation Online's first round of closed beta winds down this morning, My.com has released a shiny infographic describing all the shenanigans you got...

Chronicles of Elyria's most recent Kickstarter update is a bit of a screenshot dump, not that we're complaining. In addition to images of a...

MapleStory has been around for a long, long time, so when the game's designers say that they're preparing to unleash the "largest update in nearly...

When you're running an online game, there are certain words that are pretty much always a harbinger of problems. Words like "outage," and "missing,"...

It's been twelve years since World of Warcraft launched, and that means it's time to log in, earn anniversary achievements, and pick up some...

So here's the bad news: Your favorite MMO is going to shut down in the future. You know exactly when it's going to happen,...